Jocelyn Curry

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As a retired lettering artist and illustrator, I still create a lot of visuals and have fun doing it. My website is a place I can post and share them from my Shoreline, Washington studio in my home.

Garden Resident #2: Everblooming Poppies

November 23, 2025

Did I need a deep plunge into a new blog site, right when such a time-consuming challenge really didn’t fit into my crowded calendar? The answer, no surprise, is “no” but at least I was able to navigate the mind-befuddling process of transferring the data from my old platform to this new, AI-enhanced version of good ol’ WordPress. My previous experience of working on good ol’ WordPress wasn’t stellar, so I’m hoping to improve my relationship with it asap. So far I have been able to upload my seasonally appropriate squash painting! But now, HOW do I get rid of “Hello World!” which was placed there by Good Ol. I’m not sure about this, but I think Good Ol’s default tips will stay on this, my First Post until I figure out how to discretely remove them without being told “This is not a good idea.” At least I got my squash up on this new site for your viewing pleasure! Happy Thanksgiving :-).

PoppiesSome of my very favorite plants have hitchhiked into my garden as seeds hidden away in the pots of other adoptees. Such is the case with this clump of graceful, generously-blooming poppies that has pleased my eye daily (especially as I eat dinner as they are in my line of sight from our greenhouse table) for months. I snip off the seedpods, and more hairy little buds are eagerly sent up to open into gloriously bright apricot-colored tissue blossoms.

After I did this drawing, which I've been wanting to do all summer long, I realized that part of the beauty of the poppies can be attributed to the fact that they are always seen against a weathered cedar fence. So, to be thorough about sharing my poppies with you, and doing justice to them, I have taken a photo of them against the fence. While I was doing so, I discovered the reflected evergreen trees in the birdbath. How arty!

(tech notes: for the drawing I used a 000 Rapidograph and Winsor & Newton watercolors on Fabriano hot press paper.)
 

Poppy and reflection

 

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    Elizabeth Shea

    Lovely drawing and painting, Jocelyn. What a wonderful surprise to see the trees in the water – I love it!
    Elizabeth

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